Scratch Developer: Build Your Own Simple Games For Absolute Beginners
Learn to make games in Scratch! Programming for absolute beginners.
What you’ll learn
Kick off by making your own fun, playable games in Scratch.
Tweak and personalise games to showcase your creativity.
Dive into coding with Scratch’s easy drag-and-drop blocks.
Master essential coding bits like variables, loops, and if statements.
Design games to enjoy with your mates.
Create cool art assets using Scratch’s drawing tools.
Boost your games with nifty sounds from Scratch’s library.
Build awesome video games quickly and share them with friends.
About the course
Do you want to make real, fun video games that you and your friends can play? Are you interested in learning to code? Perhaps you’re an artist looking for a simple way to bring your artwork to life.
In this course you’ll create fun, playable games while learning real programming skills through visual scripting in the free online game engine, Scratch.
Its beginner-friendly drag-and-drop code blocks system allows you to easily learn the principles and rules of programming, which you can then build upon in other programming languages or game engines.
You'll learn the fundamental building blocks of programming and game development. Learning how to use variables, understanding if statements, forever loops, collision, broadcasting messages, clones and many more key programming concepts.
You’ll also learn how to modify your games, to really make them your own. You’ll use the drawing tools in Scratch to make your own art assets, and add interesting sound effects to your game from Scratch’s free sound library.
With this course, you’ll have all of the information for starting your game development learning in one place with clear explanations, diagrams, examples and fun challenges.
We've created this course to be family friendly and suitable for students of all ages, so if you're absolutely brand new to Scratch or programming you're in good hands.
So if you’re a complete coding or game dev newbie, or an artist wanting to bring your artwork to life - this is the course for you.
Scratch is an awesome tool for learning programming and this is a stellar course for beginners to jump in and get started.
So join us now and let’s get scratching!
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Make A Driving Game
One of the games we make is a driving game - with pickups and obstacles to avoid.
Make A Catching Game
A great starting project where you can be as zany as you like with the sorts of things you move and catch.
Instructors
Rick Davidson
Hi, I'm Rick, nice to meet you all.
I've been making video games for a living for more than 2 decades as a Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director, and Executive Producer, creating games for console, mobile, PC and Facebook. I founded an Indie game studio, called Inspirado Games, which was acquired in 2012 by Electronic Arts / PopCap. I also worked on cool IPs such as Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat and created successful new IPs from scratch (such as "GardenMind" which was nominated for Canadian Game of the Year in the social / mobile category).
As a qualified Career Coach, I've helped thousands of people achieve their dream of making games for a living - both as Indie Game Developers and as valuable game industry employees.